Pipelined decomposable BSP computers

Martin Beran

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications - Informatique Théorique et Applications (2002)

  • Volume: 36, Issue: 1, page 43-65
  • ISSN: 0988-3754

Abstract

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The class of weak parallel machines is interesting, because it contains some realistic parallel machine models, especially suitable for pipelined computations. We prove that a modification of the bulk synchronous parallel (BSP) machine model, called decomposable BSP (dBSP), belongs to the class of weak parallel machines if restricted properly. We will also correct some earlier results about pipelined parallel Turing machines.

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Beran, Martin. "Pipelined decomposable BSP computers." RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications - Informatique Théorique et Applications 36.1 (2002): 43-65. <http://eudml.org/doc/246076>.

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